Disclaimer: I have very minimal experience and knowledge working with circuit boards, but wanted to give fixing this swing one last go before I throw in the towel and toss it. I have already searched the forums for baby swing repairs and none of the previous threads were able to directly answer my question. Thank you in advance for your time and help!
My son's baby swing stopped swinging about a year ago, he was getting too big, but we had another little one on the way so I wanted to try and fix it. Everything else on the swing worked fine (music, mobile, LEDs, etc.). I took it apart and found that the worm gear on the motor wasn't catching the threads probably in the gearbox and that prevented it from swinging. I re-seated the motor and everything was fine and dandy and the swing worked great. I originally thought the motor had gone bad, so I had ordered a new motor and kept it for back-up if the motor ever did go bad.
Fast forward to earlier this week and the swing stopped swinging again. Music, mobile and LEDs still work great, but no swinging action. I took it apart again and found that the motor didn't turn on at all when you click the increase speed button. I put the new motor in and got nothing. I then tested the motors with a 9V battery and BOTH motors still function fine when tested on a 9V. Given this information, I think the issue has something to do with the circuit board. I have included pictures of the board below. I took off the transistor heat sink to examine the area for scorches and couldn't find anything noticeable. Any other ideas on what might be going wrong here? Is the next logical step to replace the transistor? Thank you all in advance for your time and help!
My son's baby swing stopped swinging about a year ago, he was getting too big, but we had another little one on the way so I wanted to try and fix it. Everything else on the swing worked fine (music, mobile, LEDs, etc.). I took it apart and found that the worm gear on the motor wasn't catching the threads probably in the gearbox and that prevented it from swinging. I re-seated the motor and everything was fine and dandy and the swing worked great. I originally thought the motor had gone bad, so I had ordered a new motor and kept it for back-up if the motor ever did go bad.
Fast forward to earlier this week and the swing stopped swinging again. Music, mobile and LEDs still work great, but no swinging action. I took it apart again and found that the motor didn't turn on at all when you click the increase speed button. I put the new motor in and got nothing. I then tested the motors with a 9V battery and BOTH motors still function fine when tested on a 9V. Given this information, I think the issue has something to do with the circuit board. I have included pictures of the board below. I took off the transistor heat sink to examine the area for scorches and couldn't find anything noticeable. Any other ideas on what might be going wrong here? Is the next logical step to replace the transistor? Thank you all in advance for your time and help!